1st Generation Less Cognitively Capable Than Their Parents

Monday, February 23, 2026

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Posted by oneironaut at 08:30 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Alternate links: Google News | Twitter

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

[image or embed]
-- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) Feb 23, 2026 at 2:16 PM

Comments

Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

Cooked: 1st gen less cognitively capable than their parents

Doesn't really matter OneIronTurd, my good paid Russian troll.

All they need to be able to do is change the oil and polish the stainless on our robot overlords.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2026-02-22 03:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Probably help if we could keep religious zealots far away from school boards and curriculum.
Screen time isn't helping, either.

#2 | Posted by morris at 2026-02-22 03:57 PM | Reply

This ------- idiot made his career out of dissing tech, so ---- him

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-22 09:28 PM | Reply

Who won the 2020 election?

Cognitive decline is being taught and encouraged.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-23 11:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You got it right with religious nutjobs. They are actively working to destroy education.

Not so much with screens. They're the best way to get up to date information. The kids just need to know they can use them for that and not just more stupidity. Technology is NOT the problem.

#5 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-02-23 10:36 PM | Reply

I would say, it's less about 'laptops and tablets' than about lowering standards to accommodate the slowest learners and the absolutely-not-gonna-lear -ers.
Yes, they are dragging everyone down to the lowest demon-inator.
The Kia boys. The lunchtime rowdies. You know, that list what keeps growing...

#6 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-02-23 11:09 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by DarkVader

I'm not as concerned with "tech", per se, but viewing and scrolling habits are doing real damage to people's attention span and ability to focus on a task for any length of time.

#7 | Posted by morris at 2026-02-24 01:46 AM | Reply

Republican's 'long game' war on education has succeeded!

High fives all the way around!

#8 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-02-24 09:15 AM | Reply

Ya know... it might not be as necessary for them. Children today face a very different world than I did... soooooo... Imma refrain from judgment on how they should evolve to handle things. We handed them technology without instructions because there weren't any. Besides... even we have smaller brains than our ancestors because we don't need as much brain power... sooooooo

www.bbc.com

It seems across the board

I really hate all the doom and gloom over hypotheticals... this is new... so we don't know what it means... the new techno world effects... preservatives in food... microplastics... bemoaning how the kids aren't doing or getting this, that, or the other... many of those things are the byproducts of what we invented to enhance the quality of life... and it has... so maybe it doesn't matter... like analog clocks.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-02-24 10:31 AM | Reply

#6 | Posted by john_savage2

You are describing the "no child left behind bill"

Now you can go google whose plan it was.

Any guesses?

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-02-24 12:57 PM | Reply

"...lowering standards to accommodate the slowest learners and the absolutely-not-gonna-lear -ers."

IOW: the offspring of 'the base'.

#11 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-02-24 02:15 PM | Reply